Camtasia Relay
Posted by Karla Youngs on Monday 27 October 2008
Tags:
e-learning |
screen capture |
video |
At the other end of the spectrum from Steve’s post on a lightweight, open source screen recorder, but also of interest to those needing live screen capture with additional audio and video, is a new product from TechSmith - Camtasia Relay. Designed for educational institutions wanting to record lectures, including presentations, video and sound recording, Camtasia Relay sits on a dedicated Win2003 server and routes recordings taken in lecture venues across site directly to Blackboard via the network.
From our first impressions, Camasia Relay looks to offer a much more streamlined workflow for academics wanting to provide live-capture course materials in a variety of file sizes and formats via their VLE, but without the legwork of manually saving, editing, compressing, delivering etc. Blackboard course profiles and filetype preferences can all be stored along with the user’s other network LDAP preferences, and applied automatically to content as it is uploaded.
The new recorder front-end which will accompany the server software, and which allows up to a licensed number of simultaneous recordings over the whole site, is also PC and Mac compatible, allowing greater freedom in choosing presentation and other software tools (especially pleasing as I write this post on a Mac Pro !). We hope to see Camtasia Recorder’s trademark ease of use preserved, and its capabilities enhanced with new features.
TASI will have an evaluation system up and running soon, to see whether all these promises are fulfilled !
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Free, open source screen capture program
Posted by Steve Hull on Wednesday 15 October 2008
Tags: e-learning | open source | screen capture | teaching |There’s a nice little open source screen capture program available on the web for Windows users. CamStudio will record whatever happens on all or part of your screen, but there are a few nice extras as well.
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TASI launches free online tutorial
Posted by Zak Mensah on Tuesday 14 October 2008
Tags: news |Internet for Image Searching is a new, free-to-use online tutorial to assist staff and students within the education sphere in locating images for use in both teaching and learning.
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We’ve got you surrounded
Posted by Karla Youngs on Monday 13 October 2008
Tags: microphones | surround sound |As 5.1 surround sound finally enters the mainstream, with the ready availability of affordable consumer systems, the need for the ability to record audio in three dimensions has become pressing. Surround sound can lend an atmosphere to a recording where mere stereo (or, god forbid, mono) will struggle. However, surround recording has thus-far been an esoteric and technically (not to mention financially) challenging business.
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Smush it up
Posted by Zak Mensah on Thursday 09 October 2008
Tags: copyright | image editing | metadata | software |The developers of a potentially useful new online tool for optimising images have hastily withdrawn one of the main ‘image crushing’ features it launched with.
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Pro Tools 8
Posted by Zak Mensah on Monday 06 October 2008
Tags: audio editing | pro tools |Digidesign have offered a sneak preview of their latest audio production system, Pro Tools 8, a sharp response to Apples latest offering, Logic Studio.
